Sight and Sound Poll 1982: Critics

THE TOP TEN
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)..................45
2. La Regle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)................31
3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)...............15
Singin' in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1952)..........15
5. (Frederico Fellini, 1963).......................14
6. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)......13
7. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960).........12
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942).....12
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)...................12
10. The General (Keaton & Bruckman, 1926)..............11
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)....................11
RUNNERS-UP
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)......10
Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)............10
2. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1942)....................9
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961)..............9
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)....................9
DIRECTORS
1. Orson Welles.......................................71
2. Jean Renoir........................................51
3. Charles Chaplin....................................37
4. John Ford..........................................34
5. Luis Bunuel........................................33
Akira Kurosawa.....................................33
7. Federico Fellini...................................32
Alfred Hitchcock...................................32
9. Jean-Luc Godard....................................30
Buster Keaton......................................30
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